Maelyn Eversole: Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture #1

 This reading discusses liminality, which is symbolic action, ritual action, and the merging of pilgrimage and play. This reading discusses how pilgrimages and the ritual actions that occur throughout those pilgrimages came about as the result of sacred play. An example of this given in the text was how tribes would combine dancing with the hunt, and resulted in ritual to bring them closer to their desired higher being. I feel as though a good modern example of this would be the act of singing in churches. It has become a ritual performed to communicate with God, although it started out as something different. I also thought  that it was interesting how the text made the point that being a part of those ritual performances are what separate the devout from the tourist. Especially since a point has been made in other texts that tourism is  hurting other sacred places.

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